“As Ron Paul stated in an interview with Glenn Beck when asked what kinds of taxation he thought was OK, “ANYTHING is better than the income tax.” So just like a smaller government is more just than a larger government, so are user and excise taxes more just than an income tax (within reason). For example, Ron Paul has explained that he supports user fees on visiting the national parks out west because if only 5% of the population visits the parks, why should 95% of the population be forced to pay for the 5%? Sound logic. And a good step in the anarchist direction.”
Your point was that Ron Paul believes taxation is theft. I have just stated that he supports excise taxes. Now you are agreeing with me. There are taxes that Ron Paul does support and he supports them because he believes they will be used to fund the government. It is a strange example of an “anarchist,” this individual who supporting the funding of government programs and believes that states can actually own property in the first place.
" Ron Paul starts the logic train in people’s minds and leaves the writing on the wall unspoken. He leaves it unspoken so that he isn’t considered too extreme and unelectable, which would take away the bully pulpit he has as a politician which enables him to push back the frontiers of ignorance. This is exactly what I would do if I were in his position."
Your perceptions of Ron Paul and the limitation of your cognitive dissonance does not infer that you are following the same intellectual path as Ron Paul. You, like every other video, are reading too much into Ron Paul’s words. The man is a politician, different from others but still a politician. He survives on baby kisses, handshakes and money. If you support what he supports but go further then he does, he is not going to say “Woha, don’t give me your money or your support.” Has he done a lot to publicize liberty? Sure. I would never deny that but honestly, with his movement in shambles, and yes it is in shambles, two failed attempts at the presidency and a lot of supporters scratching their heads wondering what comes next, he is not “pushing back the frontiers of ignorance.”
“Judge Andrew Napolitano does the same thing. He is also an anarchist but on “Freedom Watch” he, like Ron Paul, constantly touted following the non-anarchist Constitution because it is a step in the right direction. A participant at the 2010 Mises University said, “I think you’re an anarchist and you don’t know it yet” and he reponded, “Do you hear me denying anything?”:”
Yea I was at that Mises U and I was at that talk of his. I think I acting asked a question during his talk at the end. It would be funny to hear it again. Anyways, Napolitano was never the question in this discussion. You are sidetracking the issue. It has been about Ron Paul and what he is trying to achieve.
